Laws quits over expenses scandal
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2992831/Laws-quits-over-expenses-scandal.html
Treasury chief David Laws has quit because it emerged he channelled thousands in Commons expenses to his secret gay lover. The resignation is the first blow to the Tory-Lib Dem coalition. In a statement, Mr Laws said: “I do not see how I can carry out my crucial work on the budget and spending review while I have to deal with the private and public implications of recent revelations.” David Laws got a lot of support and positive words, despite the way he darkened the money. Prime Minister David Cameron described him as an honourable man, while deputy PM Nick Clegg said he deeply respected his colleague’s “dignity and integrity”. The resignation came after it was revealed that David Laws had paid 40000 pounds of taxpayers’ money to a man he has been having a relation with since 2001. Many people think he made the right decision with his resignation as a though job and personal problems (fuelled by media) are hard to combine.
This is the first of my blog posts that is about an article from The Sun and probably the last one as well. I am stunned that a paper can consist of so much rubbish. Almost all of the articles on the front page are about scandals, split-ups or people brutally murdered. What’s more, most of the pages are decorated with girls in lingerie, probably to divert the readers attention and to stop making him realise that he is reading an incredibly bad newspaper. Articles consist for fifty percent of quotes of other people, inconsequently linked together. The rest of the article, which I suppose is written by an editor of The Sun, could have been written by a ten year old just as well. This was one of the more serious articles on the site, and even here they manage to focus on the secret gay lover instead of the fact that someone steals 40000 pounds of taxpayers’ money. People quoted are just saying how honourable and decent Mr. Laws is, while in fact he channelled thousands of pounds away for his own interests. Not even one speaker in the article has something negative to say about David Laws. Cheap, panting and with no respect for privacy is how The Sun might be described. The worst thing however, is that there are people who actually like it…
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Timmeeeeeh, let me be one of those people then!
ReplyDeleteI love to read your comments on this story, and the editors of the Sun are indeed a bit talentless when it comes to writing, but I think they just write what the public wants to know.
To comment about the story, I think it is only fair of him to quit and apologize to the public. I think the main issue here is not the fact that he did what he did, but that he is embarresed for his homosexuality. I think in this time, you should be able to express yourself in many ways, and if that is not possible, there is something very wrong with this world.
Hahah love your comment on the article. I mean if it has been written in a paper full of rubbish why do people read it and still believe it? I guess they love it and that they want to read things like that because their problems look less important. I think you are free to express yourself and also free to express your sexuality jet it is hard to have followers when people think you have lied to them. So I agree that it is good that he has apologized to the people.
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